Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters Routledge Environmental Humanities Series

Woven together as a text of humanities-based environmental research outcomes, Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters hosts a collection of historical and fieldwork-based case studies and conceptual discussions of climate change in the greater Himalayan region.

The collective endeavour of the book is expressed in what the editors characterize as the clime studies of the Himalayan multispecies worlds. As a terrestrial concept, the individual case studies concretize the abstract concept of climate change in their place- and culturally-specific correlations of weather, climate pattern, and landscape change. Supported by empirical and historical findings, the concept in each chapter showcases climate change as clime change. As place, clime is discerned as both a recipient of and a contributor to climate change over time in the Himalayan context. It affirms climate change as multispecies encounters, as part of multifaceted cultural processes, and as ecologically-specific environmental changes in the more-than-human worlds of the Himalayas.

As the case studies complement, enrich, and converse with natural scientific understandings of Himalayan climate change, this book offers students, academics, and the interested public fresh approaches to the interdisciplinary field of climate studies and policy debates on climate change and sustainable development.

1. Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters: An Introduction 2. Paddy Clime: Ecological Indigeneity in the Naga Uplands 3. Lakes in Life: Mermaids and Anthropocenic Waters in the Bhutan Highlands 4. Storied Toponyms in Bhutan: Affective Landscapes, Spiritual Encounters, and Clime Change 5. Climing Everest Through Cryo-Visuals 6. Dancing in the Rain: Climing Monsoon in Pre-Modern Assam 7. A Thirsty Himalaya: Rain Clime and Anthropogenic Drought in the Darjeeling Hills 8. Clim(b)ing Slow-Moving Structures in the Garhwal Himalaya 9. The Geopolitics of Riverine Climes in the Eastern Himalayas: The Brahmaputra-Yarlung Tsangpo and the India-China Border Conflict 10. Encountering Climate Change: Agential Mountains, Angry Deities, and Anthropocenic Clime in the Bhutan Highlands 11. Predatory Climes: Beastly Encounters in the Making of the Sundarbans 12. Afterword: A Himalayan-Andean Conversation

Jelle J.P. Wouters is Associate Professor in Anthropology and Sociology at Royal Thimphu College, and Chair of the Himalayan Centre for Environmental Humanities.

Dan Smyer Yü is Kuige Professor of Ethnology at Yunnan University and a Global Faculty Member of University of Cologne, Germany.